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Manufacturing robots tend to be a bit boring, as they are just repetitive in motion.

A huge problem in modern day manufacturing is the issue of sorting. Meaning, how do you feed tons of randomly oriented parts into a machine for orderly manufacture? If you had a box of screws, how does a robot grab the top and not the bottom or side of a screw?

In this video, two ultra fast Fanuc robot arms use computer vision to process part orientation, then reinorient and space out the parts for further processing.

As far as screws go, maybe you could mess around with a magnetic tipped robotic hand and find the right threshold so that it will have enough strength to grab and lift the head but not the tail end of the screw. For reorienting manufactured parts, a small magnet could be added to a certain spot (in the manufacturing phase of the object) that would allow for easy manipulation; but, given the nature of the parts that are typically sorted I'm sure that would be extremely cost-prohibitive.